Naudé's Nek Pass — Rhodes Gravel Climb
Hard
gravel
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Elevation profile
Min 372m · Max 718m · Gain 898m · 32 km
Route stats
- Distance
- 32 km
- Elevation gain
- 900 m
- −225 m descent
- Max grade
- 6.3%
- 2.8% avg
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Surface
- Gravel
- Route type
- Point-to-point
About this route
From the trout-fishing village of Rhodes, the R396 grinds up an unrelenting ladder of gravel hairpins to the roughly 2,587 m summit of Naudé's Nek — the second-highest dirt road in South Africa, where mist and even summer snow can roll in without warning.